Quotes About Empathy

Remember that oppression hath the power to make even a wise man mad.

A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.

It was a long, long time since anyone had hugged him, so he hugged himself.

All our lives are hard in one way or another... But listen to me... We need to be kind to each other, and stick together, OK? This place is tough enough without you making my life a misery.

He seemed lonely too, not just alone, but lonely in his soul. That made Chloe sad. She knew full well what it was like to feel lonely. Chloe didn't like school very much. Mother had insisted on sending her to a posh all-girls secondary school, and she hadn't made any friends there. Chloe didn't like being at home much either. Wherever she was she had the feeling that she didn't quite fit in.

That life is precious. Every moment is precious. We should be kind to each other. While there is still time.

They may have only had one pence to spend, but their hearts beamed with gold.

Your friendgirl*?

David Walliams

Amber took charge, and ordered Tom to wheel her towards Sally. Then she handed her friend the flowers

Sheila had given Zoe a used tissue as a present, and then laughed in her face when the little girl unwrapped it. It was full of snot.

smiled in a week. "It's nice to see you smile, Dennis. Lisa told me what happened at school. I am very sorry." "Thanks, Raj." "I must say you had me fooled though! Very good you looked, Denise! Ha ha! But I mean, being expelled for putting on a dress. It's absurd! You haven't done anything wrong, Dennis. You mustn't

Ha! Ha!" "Don't let the bullies get you down! It's what's in here that counts," said Sid, clutching his heart. "You are a smashing boy – don't ever forget that!

nashin awa wi their een watterin. But naebody wis aw that freendly tae him. Naebody stapped for a blether.

Hello, Raj," said Zoe sheepishly. "I don't have any money again today I am afraid." "Not a penny?" "Nothing. Sorry.

If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.

when a person hides their motives, they hide themselves;

Life can find you only if you are paying real attention to something other than you own concerns, if you can hear and see the essence of otherness in the world, if you can treat the world as if it is not just a backdrop to your own journey, if you can have a relationship with the world that isn't based on triumphing over it or complaining about it.

after all, the identity of the one who must forgive is actually founded on the very fact of having been wounded.

To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine ourselves in the light of our maturity and we reimagine the past in the light of our new identity; we allow ourselves to be gifted by a story larger than the story that first hurt us and left us bereft.

the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another

all friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

Only those who put more energy into self-pity than into paying attention are truly marooned.